Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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Testing, Testing....
I went back to the original layout to test something out. Something strange is happening, and I'm wondering if it's this new fangled Xanga module layout thingy. Please bear with me.
In the meantime, here is the first senru poem my ather published in a local LA Japanese newspaper called the Kashu Mainichi back in 1938.
無駄話だまって聞いてる無駄話
Idle talk
listens without a word
to idle talkThe poem reflects one of the first things he learned about composing senryu--just copying someone else's diciton or technique is a waste of effort and time, just as repeating someone else's idle talk--without adding anything to it--is still idle talk... at least, that's how he explained it to me.
1:10, 6.11 mi.
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Comments (5)
wow, the 1938 Kashu Mainichi. That's a piece of JA history.
ryc: I was in Japan from 1990 to 1996. I lived at Seiseki Sakuragaoka so not only where we there at the same time, we probably frequented the same areas too -- Tama Center, Fuchu, I used to climb Takao-zan sometimes too. Did you?
Your father's poem is cool. It's better than some of the stuff I've been forced to read here =P